Richard Cotter

Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.

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EUREKA DAY: PAX VOBISCUM VS VAX PROSCRIPTION

There are many Eureka moments in Jonathan Spector’s EUREKA DAY and this production by Outhouse Theatre Co. under the direction of Craig Baldwin finds them.

There are Eureka moments of empathy, there are Eureka moments of pathos, there are Eureka

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THE ANARCHY (1138-53) AT KXT ON BROADWAY

The ack ack of Acker, a barrage of verbiage, bullseye and bullshit, projectile speech spew taking aim, misfiring, have another shot, it’s anarchy alright, all wrong and all right, a pendulum swing between profane and pretentious.

Truth in title

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WILDING: SOWS REAP

Eccentric ecological warriors worry traditional green and pleasant land tillers and livestock farmers in WILDING, a barmy balm for those fretting over fertilzer and the rape of the planet.

Based on Isabella Tree’s best-selling book by the same title, WILDING

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THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME: PURE UNALLOYED JOY

THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME is yet another blast from the canon of Wes Anderson, his latest film bearing the same cheeky originality his previous pictures have proven, baring the familiar stigmata of cinematic genius.

This extraordinary opus opens on a plane

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NIGHTSHADE: DEADLY

Add the name of Stilwell to Bosch, Haller and Ballard in the Michael Connelly universe of top shelf detective fiction protagonists.

Dave Stilwell is the hero protagonist in Connelly’s latest brilliant crime caper, NIGHTSHADE, a crime caper occurring on Catalina

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THE SALT PATH: RUN DON’T WALK

Walking is good for you. What may be hard on the sole is good for the soul and overall wellbeing. THE SALT PATH is testimony.

Just over a decade ago, Raynor Winn and her husband, Moth, set off from Minehead

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LA COCINA: CULINARY LINGUS

 

Suspicion among the saucepans, the simmer and sizzle of illicit sex, the sharp, spiced tongue of culinary lingus, all mix and mingle in LA COCINA, a no restraint restaurant drama.

The Grill is a big tourist trap eatery in

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DALE FRANK: NOBODY’S SWEETIE

 

What do we talk about when we talk about Dale Frank?

Recognised worldwide as a boundary-pushing practitioner whose oeuvre includes intimate performance pieces and large scale-paintings with structural elements, his multidisciplinary output has exhilarated audiences since the late 1970s.

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